I’ve been making some extra spending cash via these two sites all year. It can be hard work, but usually it’s pretty easy, and it’s nice to have the supplemental income. (Please be aware, though, that you do have to report this as self-employment income and pay income tax on it.)

Mine wasn’t scheduled to check for updates for another couple of days. You can force the update EssBee. Plug in your phone and on the front screen it will tell you when it will next look for updates. Just tell it to look for updates now. Expect the update to go on for about a half hour. After that, when you go onto your phone, it will ask you a bunch of questions, etc as if it were new out of the box.

Damn it EssBee. I just want you to know I blame you for the rise of my credit card bill. I now have 11 Marla Mason stories on my iPad. I’m only onto the second one but i’m the type that likes to have a backlog. I think I have them all, but I’ll have to see.

Although, I won’t read them all at once. After this one I’ll go on to Terry Pratchett, then another MM book. I’ll read them every other book from that point.

How bloody stupid is the wifi sync in iOS5, it only works if the phone or iPad is plugged into a power source….but if it has to be plugged into a power source I may as well plug it into the computer and sync over the wire…grrrrrrrrrr!

Pours a dark red brown with a slightly pink tinted head. Aroma of tart fruit still slightly sweet. Flavor is tart with sourness but not as sweet as other beers like this. The dryness with the carbonation lifts the flavor off the tongue so that it’s not cloying or overly sweet to my palate.

I would actually recommend this across the board. It’s very nicely balanced without any one flavor being so strong to offend someone.

Returned from NY today, just going through my photos 🙂 this is a photo of Hells Kitchen, NY

PS hope everyone has been good. Long time no speak. Went to San Fran for Hughs tests (all good!) and work, home for 2 days then off to NY for work also and then a few days vacation. Been a busy past few weeks.

Words with Friends is a game you can play via Facebook, as a standalone smartphone app, or both. When I read the conversation above about “nice job on the 291” and your 81 points, I assumed you and ditto were talking about that game.

We were actually at the Coyotes home opener last night. Nice to see the place sold out, and nice to see how the Yotes handled the Jets. Turns out it was on CBC too. Take that, Don Cherry!
I also had a 60-point day, thanks to Zdeno Chara. It was a good hockey Saturday.

The Matrix sequels had some good ideas, I just don’t think execution was quite there. I liked the idea of Zion actually being allowed by the matrix and reinvented every so often, because it knew humans, being what they are, needed to rebel. And “the one” was actually created to destroy Zion so it can start again, thus allowing the Matrix to continue relatively smooth.

I’ve always defended the 2nd film as an incredibly fun movie, chock full of great, pointless action sequences and visuals. The scene with the Architect was fantastic! It all seemed like hte perfect setup for a killer conclusion in film 3.

I enjoy all 3 though the finale is a bit of a muddled mess. Still, it is fairly consistent with the plot points raised throughout the series.

My major complaint with certain bashers is that they tear down the movies solely on the basis that it wasn’t the story they wanted to be told. It is fair to point out legitimate failures in plot and storytelling, it’s another thing to rate a movie by comparing it to your own mythical plot. I’ll admit there’s a fine line between the two.

Well, bear in mind that Speed Racer is a kid’s movie. I think that was part of the backlash – – hipsters went expecting a gritty Otaku homage, with trenchcoat dudes dodging slo-mo bullets.
Instead, they got a comic relief monkey and John Goodman. And a piranha.

I remember after seeing the first Matrix, I thought that because Neo became “God” at the end of the movie any follow ups to the story line would fall short. And I think that is what was wrong with the sequels. A better idea would have been to follow some other characters in the Matrix universa, ala The AniMatrix.

Over on FB, I mentioned how I had recently read Asimov’s short story “The Last Question” and absolutely loved it. Then I discovered that some of our podcasting stars “Cheyenne, Mur, Rossie” had done voice work for a Drabblecast version of the story. I listened to it last night and was blown away. It takes a while before the story telling actually starts, but once it does, it’s awesome.http://tinyurl.com/3bnadsn

Great minds think alike? I’ve been familiar with Asimov, but haven’t read any of his work. I ran across this story by chance and read the whole thing online and it really resonated with me. The voice acted version does it justice.

I’ve been counting calories and working out and junk like that for several months and have a milestone to share. I was just able to change my “activity level” from Mild Activity to Moderate Activity, and just reported 18 pounds lost!